Angles to Bet on Yoshinobu Yamamoto LA Dodgers Debut

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 - Yamamoto makes his debut tonight, right?

00:06 And nobody's seen him.

00:08 I mean, with the exception, I don't know,

00:10 was anybody on San Diego that faced Japan

00:14 in the World Baseball Classic?

00:16 So I don't wanna like, I don't wanna put my hand

00:19 on a stack of Bible and say nobody's ever seen him before.

00:22 But I don't think anybody has, actually.

00:25 'Cause everybody in the WBC didn't play against him.

00:29 So you're talking about a guy,

00:31 it's gonna be all or nothing with him, Carver.

00:33 But I think in this first game, for him,

00:36 in Asia, it makes a difference, actually, right?

00:39 He's pitched in Korea before.

00:41 He's from Japan.

00:42 He's like, he's played a lot of international baseball.

00:45 He knows this stadium, even.

00:48 So I think he's gonna be comfortable here in Asia tonight.

00:51 We'll see what happens when he gets to the big leagues.

00:53 I think there will be games where he gets hit sometimes.

00:56 But I'm very, I'm fascinated to see him play.

00:58 We know what Otani was gonna do, right?

01:00 There was no, you know,

01:02 it's Dodgers signed Tioska Hernandez.

01:03 There was no mystique or mystery

01:06 around what Tioska Hernandez is gonna do.

01:09 There's a mystique and mystery around Yamamoto, right?

01:13 Let, you know, we don't know.

01:14 Let's see him right now against big league,

01:16 big league hitters, but I'm expecting him to do well.

01:19 And even if he gives up a couple of runs tonight,

01:21 I like the over four and a half strikeouts for him.

01:24 He's got some really weird pitches, bro.

01:26 Like a lot of pitchers in major league baseball have,

01:29 you know, they got the slider, they got the cutter,

01:32 they got the fastball, they got the high seat, whatever.

01:35 They're all kind of the same pitch.

01:36 They're just sort of little variations.

01:38 This guy, this guy, Mike,

01:40 he'll come at you with like a 94, 95 mile an hour fastball.

01:43 The next pitch could be 62, right?

01:46 And, or 73.

01:48 Like his, his slider is like fat,

01:51 like everything is all over the place.

01:53 And it really throws hitters off a rhythm.

01:55 Like all the Dodger players that have faced them

01:58 during spring training are like, thank God,

02:00 I don't have to see this guy.

02:01 'Cause not only, he's one of those pitchers, Mike,

02:03 that not only will get you out,

02:06 but he can mess your swing up, bro.

02:09 Like he can mess your timing up and everything

02:11 because it was so just out there.

02:15 It's one thing to go and strike out against Garrett Colts.

02:18 Another thing, if one guy's like, it's like a yo-yo

02:21 and it messes with your head.

02:23 So a lot of hitters have said that.

02:25 You gotta just sort of accept he's gonna get you out

02:27 and don't let it mess with your head.

02:29 - I think that's, that you make a great point

02:31 about going for the strikeout over in this game with him,

02:34 because none of these guys have seen him.

02:36 Maybe one or two of them,

02:37 but none of these guys have seen him,

02:39 stood in the box against him

02:41 with what he's gonna be throwing.

02:43 He also knows that building.

02:44 He's definitely pitched in that dome in Korea

02:47 before at some point along the line.

02:50 So I think that that's gonna make a difference.

02:51 He'll have some, he'll be comfortable in there.

02:53 I like it.

02:54 And I'm gonna go back to it,

02:55 'cause we said yesterday,

02:57 I think he'll hit one in one of these two games.

02:58 Otani didn't hit one this morning.

03:00 I think you gotta go back to it

03:02 and hope that you get a little bit of something out of it

03:05 with the 282, 285, whatever you're getting Otani at

03:08 to hit a homer tomorrow,

03:09 especially with Musgrove going tomorrow,

03:11 who likes to give up the long ball to the lefties.

03:14 - We're getting better odds now.

03:15 I love it.

03:16 After one game.

03:17 You know, it went down to plus 225 last night

03:19 before the first pitch.

03:20 (laughing)

03:21 I was like, oh.

03:22 - Before I went to sleep, I saw it here on the East Coast.

03:25 I saw it go down to 225.

03:27 - Yeah, same with the Dodgers.

03:28 The Dodgers opened up at like minus 180.

03:30 They closed it at 220.

03:33 So it's one of these deals.

03:35 And these games, no one even knows these games

03:37 are going on, dude.

03:38 And they're in the middle of the morning,

03:39 in the middle of the night and stuff.

03:40 So it goes to show the power of the Dodgers batting.

03:42 So like right now at minus 185,

03:44 it's probably gonna be 200.

03:46 By the time we get to the overnight hours, I'm with you.

03:49 And Otani smoked a ball last night.

03:52 (upbeat music)

03:54 (bells chiming)

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